I read yesterday on a complaint newspaper yet another letter to the cloning of a prepaid card (in this case the Postepay Poste Italian, among the most prevalent).
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so I bring you an excerpt from my article "Operating pills"Published some time ago, the use of credit cards in general:
"And for the use of credit cards and / or ATM:
- Never lose sight when paying in shops (the restaurant that bad habit to deliver the card to the waiter);
- Always check your statement, perhaps keeping the receipts of payments made during the previous month;
- In the case of improper charges or if it was realized cloning is okay to do once the complaint to the police indicating that the costs do not recognize;
- If you use for purchases on the Internet to verify site security: appears on the page a padlock on the bottom of the screen;
- Attention also to any email you receive with links to sites that require you to enter codes and pin up ghostly sites of banks. "
The latter is the so-called phishing, thus defined on report on Clusit 2018: a phenomenon that through Social Engineering techniques (Social Engineering), then imitating appearance and content of legitimate email service providers, It required to provide confidential information such as the number of credit card or access credentials.
The level of likelihood of the messages that are sent is so high that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the average user to tell the difference between the mails sent in a campaign of Phishing and e-mails sent legitimately from common online services.
So remember that, banks, items and financial intermediaries in general will never ask, by email, data, codes and credentials on the relationships with them entertained.
Alex Gaetani
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